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Problems facing the USSR in late 20th c.
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Roles of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II
Glasnost
Perestroika
Fall of Berlin Wall
Solidarity movement
End of communism in east Europe
Fall of Soviet Union
Boris Yeltsin
Commonwealth of Independent States
Chechnya
Vladimir Putin
Conflict in Yugoslavia
Conflict in Kosovo
Persian Gulf War
Problems facing the US as the sole superpower
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Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Changes under Castro
US-sponsored invasion of
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Embargo on Cuba
Cuba AFTER the
Revolution
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Religious revivalism
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Problems in Iran before
Rev.
Relationship w/US & USSR
before Rev.
Iranian Revolution
Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini
Shari’a in 20th c. Iran
Iran Hostage Crisis
President Ahmadinejad
Relationship w/Israel &
the US after the Rev.
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Gamal Abdul Nasser (Egypt)
Free Officers Movement (Egypt)
Muslim Brotherhood
Answar Sadat
Hosni Mubarak
Balfour Declaration
Creation of Israel
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Palestinian Liberation Front
Hamas, Hezbollah
Yasser Arafat
Israeli Prime Ministers (David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon)
Creation of Turkey, features of modern Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Ataturk)
Organization of OPEC
Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein
Arab Spring
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Mexican Rev.
Mexican Constitution (1917)
Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (Mexico)
NAFTA
Vicente Fox
Juan Jose Arevalo
United Fruit Company
Role of the US in Guatemala
Liberation Theology
Role of the military in L.America
Rising democratic trends
Relationships w/the US
Banana Republics
Good Neighbor Policy
Role of women
Role of workers
Culture in 20th c. L. America
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Demographic Impact of major conflicts
WWI, WWII
 Korean War, Vietnam War
 Revolutions & decolonization
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Migrations
Rural to urban – where & why?
 Global – where & why?
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Population bomb in Africa – causes & consequences
Demographic transitions
Widespread disease – Spanish influenza, AIDS, SARS
Environmental impact of major conflicts
WWI, WWII
 Korean War, Vietnam War
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Environmental problems
Soil depletion
 Overpopulation
 Industrial pollution
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Green Revolution
Rachel Carson – Silent Spring
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Globalization
Impact of new technology
Economic globalization
Multinational corporations
Cultural globalization
Institutions of globalization
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UN
World Health Organization
International Non-Governmental Orgs.
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
NAFTA
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Resistance to globalization
Rise of nationalism
Religious fundamentalism